What experience and personal qualities do these people have?

Scott set out for the South Pole with a team of 16. They are grouped here according to the teams that they returned in. The Polar Team (including Scott as leader) Edward Wilson Wilson was a long-standing friend of Scott. He had accompanied Scott on the 1900-04 Discovery voyage. A physician and naturalist, Wilson was appointed chief of the scientific staff and official artist. Born: 1872 Nickname: 'Uncle Bill' Lawrence Oates Captain, 6th Innskilling Dragoons Oates was from an upper-class family and had fought in the Boer War where he had been wounded. Oates was in India living a life of hunting and polo when Scott's expedition was announced . He was very keen to go to the Antarctic and offered £1 000 to the expedition and his services for free. He was responsible for the ponies. Born:1880 Nicknames: 'Titus', 'The Soldier' Henry Bowers Lieutenant, Royal Indian Marine Bowers was short at 5'4" but very fit and strong despite being 12 stone in weight. He had read Scott's book The Voyage of the Discovery and deeply interested in polar exploration. He was responsible for organising the expedition's stores. Born:1883 Nickname: 'Birdie' because of his large, beak-like nose Edgar Evans Petty Officer Evans had been on the Discovery expedition and was very loyal to Scott. He was a very powerful man, Scott once described him as a 'giant worker'. Born:1876 Nickname: 'Taff' Evans' Party (returned 4 January 1912) Edward Evans Lieutenant R.N. Evans was second-in-command of the Terra Nova expedition. He had been on the Morning, one of the relief ships from the Discovery expedition He had a huge interest in Antarctic exploration and was planning his own expedition before Sir Clements Markham brought he and Scott together. Born:1881 Nickname: 'Teddy', 'Skipper' Petty Officer Thomas Crean Crean, an Irishman, had been on the Discovery expedition Top of the Beardmore Glacier (returned 21Dec) Edward Atkinson Surgeon, R.N. Atkinson was a doctor with responsibilities for parasitology and bacteriology on the expedition. He was in command during the second winter at Cape Evans. Born:1882 Nickname: 'Atch' Charles Wright Wright, a Canadian, was the expedition's physicist. Born:1887 Nicknames: 'Silas"- after Silas Hocking, an American writer, and 'Jules Verne' Petty Officer Patrick Keohane An Irishman Apsley Cherry-Garrard   Cherry-Garrard was, like Oates, from the English gentry. Also like Oates he offered £1 000 to go on the expedition. He had graduated from Oxford after majoring in Classics and Modern History. Cherry-Garrard was cousin of Scott's publisher and a friend of Wilson who supported his case to be included in the trip. He was assistant zoologist Born:1886 Nickname: 'Cherry' Bottom of the Beardmore Glacier (returned 11 Dec) Cecil Meares     Meares was a bit of a mystery person. There were suggestions that he had worked with intelligence and he had spent a lot of time in the East where he developed dog-handling skills. He was given to task of buying the dogs in Russia and, though he knew little about horses, he also bought the ponies. He was in charge of the dogs. Dmetri Girev A Russian, Girev helped Meares buy the dogs and came to the Antarctic as a dog-handler- the dogs only understood orders given in Russian. Motor sledge team (returned 24 Nov) Bernard Day   Day had been with Shackleton in 1907-09 where he had worked with motors. He was in charge of motor sledges. Frederick Hooper Steward R.N. Hooper was originally chosen as a steward but he joined the shore party. He continued with steward's tasks at Cape Evans eg washing the dishes for the officers, but he also became a useful team member.

Peter Hillary When Peter climbed Mount Everest in 1990 he and his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, who made the first ascent of Everest in 1953, became the first father and son to achieve that pinnacle of adventuring achievement; the summit of the world's highest mountain. For Peter, this feat is but a highlight in an adventuring career that has spanned some 25 years and encompasses a wealth of different terrains and challenges. His extensive mountaineering experience includes more than 30 alpine expeditions in the Himalaya, the Karakoram, New Zealand's Southern Alps, the Andes, Antarctica and North America. He has led and been part of climbing teams on some of the world's highest peaks, including Everest, K2, Makalu, Lhotse, Aconcagua and Vinson. Peter completed the first high altitude traverse of the Himalayan Range; a 5000km route from Sikkim through Nepal and India to Pakistan at an average altitude of over 13,000 feet, undertaken with fellow mountaineers Graeme Dingle and Chewang Tashi. He also visited the North Pole with Sir Edmund and astronaut Neil Armstrong. Peter has been active in the Himalayan Trust, an organisation founded by his father to assist the hill people of the Mt. Everest region where they have built and run 30 schools, 2 hospitals and 8 medical clinics. Since 1992, Peter has taken groups totaling 400 teenagers to Nepal to assist with construction work on some of the Himalayan Trust schools and hospitals. He arranges for similar youth philanthropic missions to work, trek and adventure each year. Peter lives in Melbourne with his wife and son, and commutes regularly between New Zealand and Australia, working as a speaker in both countries. Jon Muir Jon is a versatile adventurer, at home on the world's great mountains, deserts or oceans. At a very early age, after watching the BBC documentary "Everest the Hard Way", he decided to become a professional mountaineer. Since then Jon has pioneered many new routes on some of the world's highest and most formidable mountains, often battling dangerous weather, oxygen shortage and unstable rock. Jon's skill and patience in the high mountains became an instrumental tool in the success of his wife Brigitte's success on the world's Seven Summits - the highest peak on each continent. More recently Jon has undertaken solo kayak journeys along the Australian coast, and has also completed long and arduous treks into the Australian deserts. Some of Jon's remarkable adventures include: Pioneered dozens of new routes in the New Zealand Alps over a period of 10 years. Ascents of famous European routes such as the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses and the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. Also solo ascents of the North Face of the Matterhorn, the NE Face of Piz Badile and Frontier Ridge on Mont Blanc. In 1985 Jon completed the first Australian winter ascent of Mont Blanc. Extensive climbing in the Himalaya including an ascent of the extremely difficult SW Pillar on Changabang, a solo traverse of Kedarnath including Kirti Bamak (6500m), Kedarnath Peak (7015m) and Kedarnath Dome (6850m). Also success on a new route of great difficulty on the West Pillar of Shivling (6500m). Climbed Mt. Everest with the Australian Bicentennial Expedition. Jon climbed to the summit solo and recorded the fastest ever ascent of Mt. Everest. Attempts on many difficult routes including the West Ridge, North Ridge and South Pillar of Everest, the South Face of Aconcagua and a solo attempt on the Grandes Jorasses. Ascents of the highest mountains in Europe and South America - Mt. Elbrus and Aconcagua. Desert and sea kayak trips including a 900km, 62 day sea kayak journey from the Daintree River to the tip of Cape York, a 280km walk across the Simpson desert and a 34 day, 600km self-supported walk across the dry bed of Lake Eyre and through the Tirrari Desert. In 1989 Jon was awarded the Order of Australia medal for his Everest climb and his services to Australian mountaineering. Jon and Brigitte operate a successful guiding company from their home in Natimuk, Victoria. Located next to the sandstone cliffs of Mt. Arapiles, their clients are treated to some of the best climbing the world has to offer. For their more adventurous clients, they specialise in ascents of South America's highest peak, Aconcagua. Eric Philips Eric trained as a teacher in South Australia where he graduated with a Bachelor of Education and a Graduate Diploma in Outdoor Education. He has worked as an Outdoor Educator in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, and has taught both primary, secondary and tertiary students. As an adventurer, Eric has visited every continent on earth, often leading lightweight and self-supported expeditions to remote areas. His diverse skills have seen him participate in adventures ranging from white-water kayaking to mountaineering, sailing to para-gliding, traction kiting to ice yachting. Eric now specialises in ski expeditions to the polar icecaps. Some highlights from Eric's career as a teacher and adventurer include: An eleven month world trip including climbing, hiking and skiing trips in New Zealand, USA and Canada, a sailing journey through Alaska's "Inside Passage" and a 3000km bicycle tour through Europe, Egypt and Thailand. Director of Outdoor Education at Geelong Grammar School's Timbertop campus. As a teacher, Eric was so inspired by the achievements of his Outdoor Education students that he began to pursue his passion for polar travel. From 1991 to 1992, a student committee assisted in the planning and preparation of his forthcoming Ellesmere Island Expedition. Organised and led the Australian Ellesmere Island Arctic Expedition. This 300km expedition to Canada's High Arctic completed the first ski crossing of Ellesmere's northern and largest icecap, and put the first Australians on the island's highest mountain - Barbeau Peak (2607m). Considered the "least visited island in the world", the expedition's northernmost point of 81o is one of the most remote and isolated points on the planet. A 3000km bicycle tour through Argentina and Chile. Following a winding trail through the mountainous and windswept terrain of Patagonia and sub-Antarctic Tierra del Fuego, this three month odyssey ended in Ushuaia, the world's most southerly town. Organised and led a multi-disciplined expedition to Greenland. Green Ice Traverse completed a rare sea-to-sea crossing of the world's second largest icecap, employing kayaks to negotiate the icy coast, skis and steerable kites called Quadrifoils to cross the icecap, and kayaks again to paddle the turbulent rivers to the coast. Hailed as an "innovative breakthrough in polar travel", the 40 day expedition covered 700km of sea, ice and white-water. An Emmy award winning documentary about the expedition - Chasing the Midnight Sun - has sold to over 40 countries worldwide and screened in Australia on the ABC network. Eric was employed by the Australian Antarctic Division as a Field Training Officer, and was based at Mawson Station for 5 months. He was responsible for the training of ANARE expeditioners in Antarctic survival techniques, including mountaineering skills, glacier travel, crevasse technique, navigation, sea-ice travel and search and rescue. Eric also visited remote Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic where he supported a host of scientific programs.